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After I posted the item about the tea stain remover [yesterday’s post] I did a search, using the slogan, to see if I could find who might have instigated this heinous campaign. The results were disappointing with only this site and QQ News returned with the full slogan, all other hits were irrelevant. Out of curiosity I repeated the exercise today and was presented with 117 hits, each containing the slogan. Here are a few of them

The first on the list is Baidu, listing another 2 further pages of sites, I didn’t investigate these and assumed they will be duplicates of those already found. Most of the others are on Chinese websites and simply reproduce the QQ news item, but others add a few comments. Here are a few selected from the thread of a forum, arguing over the possible meaning of the ad and all of them completely missing the point. Bear in mind these are Google translations so the English is not very good.

Absolutely Yiyushuangguan mean.现实生活中，china这个词常用么？ In real life, china used the word Mody »如果一个装饰性的瓷器还说得过去，而喝茶的杯子谁管它叫china? 我听说过have a cup of tea，却没听说过have a china of tea. If a decorative porcelain also justifiable, and the tea cups Who Guanta Jiao china «I’ve heard about have a cup of tea, no one heard of have a china of tea.tea这个东西，本身就很容易联系到中国。 tea this thing in itself can easily link to China.欧美人喝茶的比例毕竟是少数，如果做广告，更应该说，洗咖啡垢，可乐垢。 Europe and the United States, after all, the proportion of people drinking tea is one of the few, if advertising, should also be said that the scale washing coffee, cola scale.偏偏选了一个茶垢，真是别有用心。 Unfortunately the election of a tea scale, is an ulterior motive.

再看排版，后面感觉就是Made in China。 Look at publishing, is the feeling behind the Made in China.是在打击中国制造的东西有污圬。 In the fight against Chinese-made things have sewage masonry.不知道这个广告是什么时候放上去的，如果是毒玩具毒狗粮那段时间反中国制造的高潮时期，那它100%有反华的意思在里面。 The ads do not know what the time-boost, if the drug is toxic Gouliang toys made in China at that time the anti-climax period, it is 100 percent anti-China mean inside.更可恶的是，这里字母全都是大写，所以也没办法区别是不是一个专用名词。 More heinous is that here are all in capital letters, so it can not distinguish is not a special term.

The English do not quite understand people not to speak, Procter & Gamble this ad is a shame, for advertising, his advertisements have two customs justice, CHINA can refer to China, was criticized when sophistry can be said that the porcelain, but if they are That the porcelain, the use of cleaner bit too narrow, because the cleaning agents can not just wash porcelain, can also wash the glass. Shing and tea in general is in the cup, porcelain flush toilets is done, but by who heard that Flush toilet to drink tea,所以正常情况下, 他的这个广告词应该说”除去任何杯中的茶垢”,而不是”除去瓷器中的茶垢”他难以自圆其说的.他这个广告直意是”中国茶可以造成污垢”, 暗讽中国的东西都是污垢. Therefore, under normal circumstances, his words should be said that this ad “cup of tea to remove any scale”, not “get rid of porcelain tea scale,” he difficult to justify. He This ad is intended straight, “Chinese tea can cause dirt” , An Feng of China things are dirt.

If the students who reported this to QQ had not been so touchy . . if QQ had used a bit of common sense or employed a competent translator to check the ad out . . if the ‘news’ item had not been published . . . . probably no one would have batted an eyelid.

Am I right in thinking we have an expression which might sum this up, something about a lot of rain in a cup? Or creating a large mound of humous from the labours of a small black animal?

By using the terms “burning” and “wildfire,” in English, no less, you must be referring to the frequent wildfires that we have in the US. How could you be so insensitive? All Americans in the entire world feel strongly toward their motherland and will not stand for this blatant racism. I have now added an American flag to my IM avatar, and will make a shirt that reads: 反万花楼！！